Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-12
DAILY HERALD.
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New York city.
Persons familiar with the SUBURBS
AT New York wonder where the occu-
ants of the numberless fiat houses
low going up are to come from; Inc
D DAnodern style OF building will admit OF
p aarom eight to twenty families. On
Winoderate estimate there are Thousand
MFithout the roofs on, and Thousand
Who're with their window glass In, ana
: thousand more with their hrst plils
IN. Where are the tenants? On the
Hillside and in the valley the builders
Eowurely think or they wouldn't
Begin to dig cellars for more
she efore the ones Just finished have
0.sSgot their janitors appointed.
y A janitor gets his house rent tree.
Nearly every butcher, grocer, milk
5 man, iceman, coalman and paper boy
pays royalty to him. All the stutf
! that goes through the elevator is sam
pied by the humane janitor, who
y makes sure, by proper tests, that you
have good goods sent to you by his
underlings. Your coal is his coal, and
your kindlings are his kindlings, down
to the last bucket and bundle. tie
fixes up with the electric door-opener
man and the steam heat repairer, how
often that wire shall not respond TO
pressure, and how frequently the fur-
mace shall go back on its origlnal, IN
: tentions. He hires some poor drunken
or shiftless scrub to attend to the dirty
work and with his hands in his pock-
cts he walks about and surveys the
situation. He begins to build flats
: himself after few years, for there Is
= no avocation at present holding out
= the opportunity for acquiring wealth
q like that of the janitor except 1t being
the paying tellership OF the bank.
To people taking lively interest IN
= their neighbours business, and deslrous
of mingling the affairs OF the entire
house with their domestic economy,
is commended the modern apartment
house, with its shafts running from
). cellar to roof. They are conductors
of the meekest woman's mlldest
" whisper. l was visiting lady who
" paws $S5 per month for six highly
i ornamental adjoining closets. There
'. is sort of cupboard with a range and
: she denominates it a kitchen; cup
' board with dining table fitted snugly
in where they eat; another into which
the piano has been forced, and is
called drawing-room there are little
closets into which three beds are sue
cessfully wedged, and these she refers
to properly as bedrooms. She and
her husband keep their night-gowns
in the piano, because there is hardly
space enough for the bedding now.
The shaft opens into the closet to the
dintng-room and so when sat at the
little three-by-four table having bite
of supper, l couldn't help hearing the
entire population of the house hard at
it. There is widow with pretty
daylghter On the second floor; there is
a Iboker-playing bachelor on the third /;
, thdre is musical young man on the
!. foul rth. At the particular time when
foined the party, the widows
daughter was sitting up with her
/ yotung man, a rousing game was in
, Progress and the young man on top
wa IS warbling snatches fitted to the
premises of every song he ever knew.
'e Whose only pony pet is it? says
a the steady company up stairs.
\ Yours, Gussie; you know it."
<sI'll raise you. What'n you do?'
g cries the poker player.
'r 'tPut me in my little bed" sing;
ie the top floor.
- "Che-e-e-p!" comes the first OF the
: farewell series of kisses with unmis
= taxable distinctness down the shaft.
p Don't Gussie; be still; you'll wake
OF up ma"
:, "Give me three"
" tsDrawin' to fill, amt yer?"
," .'The gray dawn is breaking,
which | The home of the hunter is
II, CopBow, wow, wow" from my hos
I,op,' setter, who is trying to turn
- md in the yard, and has got his
Ia doeasover a clothes line.
that nasty dog beginning
ar Gall the night. l wish you'd poison
or shoot him, Gussie."
'eaSoh't will, my precious pet"
what bluff You hadn't {
enue isled thing in your hand
lone: sdy bark is on the sea-" sings the
....d away up, and "bow, WOW. WOW,
the baritone in the yard.
Judges Wow do you stand it ?'' | asked.
nd. .whoecause there isn't room in the
roI \ to sit down in, l guess" she says
- jserably, "and yet they are putting
y 5000 fiat houses within twenty
4 lies of the city hall"
/, Eo down to Coney Island and you
NJ, II see that time and place can make
lent that which would be horrify'
( elsewhere. Men go down to the
TIT hch with their knees and elbows,
Ioi- ia the Jumps in their throat where
ga Ie first bite of the Fall pippin stuck
Ii in sight. To show the inconsis-
.,vIncy OF the thing let me tell you
labout Tom Esau. He is long, lank,
black fellow, and he has yacht that
makes it very pleasant to know him in
white flannel. A party of fellows
4 and girls were walking, and he tum-
bIed over rock and hurt his leg.
They laughed at it, but pretty soon he
said: 'It's nothing to laugh about.
I'll show bad bruise," and with that
he. pulled up his pantaloon leg, and
: thare was his ankle barked. The girls
were all shocked. 1t was such an in
delicate thing to do. They sailed off
in high dudgeon to the hotel. Then
they all went down to bathe, and as
the men of the set joined the girls
with bathing trunks that didn't 90
down half way to their knees, with
their low-necked, sleeveless shirts and
the whole costume little worse than
nothing, it struck me that those girls
were the most inconsistent creatures
in the world.
Did you ever notice how perfectly